The Celtic Heroic Age
- 488 pages
- 18 hours of reading
A new fourth edition of an invaluable collection of literary sources, all in translation, for Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales. schovat popis
John D. Koch Books
John T. Koch is a leading American scholar whose work delves deeply into Celtic studies, with a particular focus on prehistory and the early Middle Ages. His extensive research illuminates early Irish and Welsh languages, literature, and history. Koch explores the origins and evolution of Celtic languages and cultures, with his scholarship covering a broad spectrum of topics from linguistic analysis to historical interpretation. His investigations reach back to the earliest written records and linguistic traces, seeking to reconstruct early Celtic identity and its Atlantic connections.
Beyond the Aegean, some of the earliest written records of Europe come from the south-west, what is now southern Portugal and south-west Spain. Herodotus, the 'Father of History', locates the Keltoi or 'Celts' in this region, as neighbours of the Kunetes of the Algarve. He calls the latter the 'westernmost people of Europe'.
John D. Koch, Jr. explores the current debates surrounding the relationship between the distinction between law and gospel and the doctrine of justification by faith as they are being discussed among various theological traditions. In addition, he shows how a certain commitment to the centrality of the distinction between law and gospel can overcome linguistic and cultural differences as seen in the sympathetic reading of the American Lutheran, Gerhard O. Forde, and German Lutheran, Oswald Bayer. Using their theology as a guide, the author looks at the various criticisms levied by the Roman Catholic Church, the Finnish Lutheran School, the New Perspective on Paul, and other contemporary voices of dissent. This work is of interest to anyone dealing with the 20th century background of the current discussions surrounding this „article upon which the church stands or falls.“